Mr BARRY O'FARRELL: My question is directed to the Premier. In light of evidence that former Minister Milton Orkopoulos had sex and shared drugs with underage boys in places including his parliamentary office, what steps did the Premier take to ascertain what the Minister's former chief of staff Nathan Rees knew about such activities before he appointed him to his ministry?

Mr MORRIS IEMMA: This matter has been the subject of police investigation and a trial in which a conviction has been recorded and is ready for sentencing, yet the who-knew-what questions, the innuendo and the smear continues.

Mr Andrew Fraser: Exactly. People have to know.

Mr MORRIS IEMMA: Minister Rees has been asked previously. I direct the Leader of the Opposition to everything the Minister and I have said previously on the record in relation to this matter.

Mr Adrian Piccoli: You did not want to ask him. You did not even ask him.

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murrumbidgee will cease interjecting.

Mr MORRIS IEMMA: If the Leader of the Opposition wishes to make an allegation—

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Bathurst will cease interjecting.

Mr MORRIS IEMMA: —or if he has some information that the police investigation or the trial did not proceed as it should have, there are appropriate forums to which he can refer those matters.